'Muffins & cupcakes' archive

Vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

It’s a mom-and-daughter baking project. I baked the cupcakes and mixed the frosting. Sam tinted the frosting and piped them on the cupcakes. She’s not a pastry chef. She’s turning 16 tomorrow and she’s never taken baking classes. If you want the full story on how we did the cupcakes, see “Once upon a time, she wanted to be a chef.”

Carrot cupcakes

Based on a recipe found in Random Thoughts, I halved the ingredients to make cupcakes instead of two round cakes, got rid of the raisins (my kids don’t like raisins), retained the original amount of walnuts (love the stuff!) and substituted baking powder for the soda. The great thing about this recipe is how uncomplicated it is. Preparation took about 20 minutes and the baking time is 20 minutes as well. I started the preparations at 6.00 a.m. and the carrot cupcakes still made it to the kids’ lunchboxes in time for the arrival of the school bus at 6.45.

Martha Stewart’s plum coffee muffins

The recipe is from Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. I’ve tried about half a dozen recipes from the cookbook and all have been great. Looks like I finally found a cookbook with real recipes rather than just Photoshopped food pics. I’ve done this muffin recipe before using preserved seedless plums and they were great. Just substitute fresh pitted plums and follow the same recipe to make muffins like the ones in the photo.

The obvious question is which is better — the version with the preserved plums or the one with fresh plums?

Blueberry streusel cupcakes

When I asked my husband to buy frozen blueberries, I was half expecting that he’d come home with a pack of “Baguio-grown” blueberries. Wishful thinking, I guess, because there were only packs of imported blueberries in the supermarket. We grow blueberries at Trinidad Valley in Benguet but we never seem to be able to find them in local markets.

Corn muffins a la Kenny Rogers

So, it’s the morning of Christmas Day and you haven’t totally digested the previous night’s noche buena feast. You want breakfast though but you want to keep it light. Boxed cereals, perhaps? Boring. Oatmeal? Eeeeww… do you have to feel like an invalid on Christmas Day? Pan de sal with kesong puti? Great if you [...]

Betty Crocker’s blueberry muffins

Taking the kids to the supermarket is fun. They discover food products that I’d never take a second look at. It also means that the bill can double or even triple. Anyway, it was one of my daughters (can’t remember now which one) who discovered Betty Crocker’s blueberry muffin mix a couple of years ago. [...]

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House On A Hill

Amateur baker

• Scones with preserved seedless plums
• Blueberry and apple squares
• Chocolate cheesecake
• Strawberry streusel cake
• Valentine’s Day cheesecake
• Corn muffins
• Sam’s butterscotch brownies
• Chocolate and almond cookie squares
• Corn bread
• My first apple pie

Oh, so sweet!

• Coffee jelly dessert
• Comfort food and home cooked meals
• Chocolate coated gummy bears
• Mango and jelly (jango) dessert
• Refrigerator cake
• Mango custard
• Mango Royale
• Crepes a la mode
• Mandarin Orange Royale
• Mango-rum sorbet